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Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
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and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
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and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
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a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
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You therefore who teach another, don`t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn`t steal, do you steal?
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You who say a man shouldn`t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
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For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.
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For circumcision indeed profits, if you be a doer of the law, but if you be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
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If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won`t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
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Won`t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
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For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
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but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.